J. H. Hines Co. v. Guillot
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Avoyelles; S. Allen Bordelon, Judge. Two actions by the J. H. Hines Company, Incorporated, against Amet Guillot, Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector, and others. From the judgment in the first action, defendants appeal, and, from the judgment in the second action, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion
On Behearing.
OVEBTON, J.
In these cases, a rehearing was granted, confined to the question of attorney’s fees. On the first hearing it was held that the sheriff and ex officio tax collector should collect as costs 10 per cent, attorney’s fees, in collecting the taxes held to be due by plaintiff on the property, involved in these suits, with the exception of these fees on the acreage tax for the year 1918. With respect to that tax, it was held that attorney’s fees, based on it, were not collectible, for the reason that it was null to the extent of three-fifths, and -for the further reason that…
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